The full impact of the storm became clear before the team got to Texas, when the buses pulled off the road at an Interstate 20 rest area. “Coach lets all the guys off to let their legs out, grab something to eat if they want to,” said Ricard. “And when we go inside, it hits. There’s TVs all over the truck stop. And all of a sudden you see the damage. And we’d been getting the wildest stories, that there were alligators running around downtown New Orleans, anaconda snakes, that the chief of police had been murdered. We get on the bus, and you can hear a pin drop. No one’s talking.

“And that’s when it hit that this could be not over for football but just everything. This was gonna be different, you know?”

They pulled into Dallas in the early hours of Wednesday, August 31. While the Green Wave resumed football practice at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, athletic department and conference officials set to the unwieldy mission of reproducing their institution on the road. “There was no playbook to go to,” said Dickson. “There was nothing really to reference.”

“I think everyone probably had some moments where it was like, look at what’s happening in our city, is it right to continue? Is this something we should be doing?” said former assistant athletic director Donna Turner.

Initially inclined to call off the season for all the school’s fall sports teams, Dickson says he changed his mind after speaking with the athletes, including Ricard and his own daughter Kelly, a senior volleyball captain for the Green Wave. On Friday, Tulane canceled classes for the semester and announced its athletic teams would continue to compete as a functioning arm of the university.

http://grantland.com/features/breaking-t...ry-twitter

The effect of Katrina had a long reach. Last Thursday I was helping our church kitchen volunteers prep some meals. They reminded all of us "helpers" that last week was the 10th anniversary of our kitchen prepping meals.

They had no clue that the 1 week's prep work 10 years ago would serve as a "practice exercise" for our kitchen being able to serve 3 hot meals every day for weeks for 1,000 Katrina refugees, many of whom we were able to provide cots, bedding, and temp housing in our gym and other sections of our church campus. It was one of the best demonstrations of one group of people serving another group in need that I'll ever see on this earth.

(08-25-2015 05:28 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  The full impact of the storm became clear before the team got to Texas, when the buses pulled off the road at an Interstate 20 rest area. “Coach lets all the guys off to let their legs out, grab something to eat if they want to,” said Ricard. “And when we go inside, it hits. There’s TVs all over the truck stop. And all of a sudden you see the damage. And we’d been getting the wildest stories, that there were alligators running around downtown New Orleans, anaconda snakes, that the chief of police had been murdered. We get on the bus, and you can hear a pin drop. No one’s talking.

“And that’s when it hit that this could be not over for football but just everything. This was gonna be different, you know?”

They pulled into Dallas in the early hours of Wednesday, August 31. While the Green Wave resumed football practice at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, athletic department and conference officials set to the unwieldy mission of reproducing their institution on the road. “There was no playbook to go to,” said Dickson. “There was nothing really to reference.”

“I think everyone probably had some moments where it was like, look at what’s happening in our city, is it right to continue? Is this something we should be doing?” said former assistant athletic director Donna Turner.

Initially inclined to call off the season for all the school’s fall sports teams, Dickson says he changed his mind after speaking with the athletes, including Ricard and his own daughter Kelly, a senior volleyball captain for the Green Wave. On Friday, Tulane canceled classes for the semester and announced its athletic teams would continue to compete as a functioning arm of the university.

http://grantland.com/features/breaking-t...ry-twitter

Thank you...

Wow Tulane Football has been through a lot. Good luck in the future.

(08-25-2015 10:37 PM)oldtiger Wrote:  The effect of Katrina had a long reach. Last Thursday I was helping our church kitchen volunteers prep some meals. They reminded all of us "helpers" that last week was the 10th anniversary of our kitchen prepping meals.

They had no clue that the 1 week's prep work 10 years ago would serve as a "practice exercise" for our kitchen being able to serve 3 hot meals every day for weeks for 1,000 Katrina refugees, many of whom we were able to provide cots, bedding, and temp housing in our gym and other sections of our church campus. It was one of the best demonstrations of one group of people serving another group in need that I'll ever see on this earth.

The city of Houston was very active in aiding Katrina victims. Lots of people I knew volunteered to help at the Astrodome. I know Rice had Tulane baseball practicing in the Rice facilities for a while. I knew some of the story of Tulanes plight, but this article really fills in a lot of details.

I feel like Tulane is just now really starting to recover from that decade.

Just rebounding from the fight to stay D1 was an uphill battle---Then Katrina hits with a blow would have done in many programs. Lucky Tulane has a lot of money.

Now with the renovated gym and new on campus stadium, I think they are finally in position to make a real go of it. I wish everyone on the board would read this article so they understand just exactly what kind of blow Tulane has had to recover from.

(08-25-2015 11:59 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(08-25-2015 10:37 PM)oldtiger Wrote:  The effect of Katrina had a long reach. Last Thursday I was helping our church kitchen volunteers prep some meals. They reminded all of us "helpers" that last week was the 10th anniversary of our kitchen prepping meals.

They had no clue that the 1 week's prep work 10 years ago would serve as a "practice exercise" for our kitchen being able to serve 3 hot meals every day for weeks for 1,000 Katrina refugees, many of whom we were able to provide cots, bedding, and temp housing in our gym and other sections of our church campus. It was one of the best demonstrations of one group of people serving another group in need that I'll ever see on this earth.

The city of Houston was very active in aiding Katrina victims. Lots of people I knew volunteered to help at the Astrodome. I know Rice had Tulane baseball practicing in the Rice facilities for a while. I knew some of the details of Tulanes plight, but this article really fills in a lot of details.

I feel like Tulane is just now really starting to recover from that decade.

Just rebounding from the fight to stay D1 was an uphill battle---Then Katrina hits with a blow would have done in many programs. Lucky Tulane has a lot of money.

Now with the renovated gym and new on campus stadium, I think they are finally in position to make a real go of it. I wish everyone on the board would read this article so they understand just exactly what kind of blow Tulane has had to recover from.

Every conference fan should read that article! It's amazing that the Green Wave fielded competitive teams after Katrina.

Tulane, with its academic standards, location in a city known for celebration and somewhat odd dialect at times, and diverse athletic results has always been a bit of a mystery to those not famaliar with its full potential. Hopefully, that article,as a partial and high level review will assist folks understand what the Green Wave and their fans have been through.

Glad to see Holly mentioned USNA's help: upped the guarantee, arranged chow, and brokered Baltimore hotel free rooms for the team.

(08-25-2015 10:37 PM)oldtiger Wrote:  1,000 Katrina refugees--a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

Evacuee--a person evacuated from a place of danger to somewhere safe.


The citizens of SE LA and South MS are citizens of the USA.

(08-25-2015 11:59 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(08-25-2015 10:37 PM)oldtiger Wrote:  The effect of Katrina had a long reach. Last Thursday I was helping our church kitchen volunteers prep some meals. They reminded all of us "helpers" that last week was the 10th anniversary of our kitchen prepping meals.

They had no clue that the 1 week's prep work 10 years ago would serve as a "practice exercise" for our kitchen being able to serve 3 hot meals every day for weeks for 1,000 Katrina refugees, many of whom we were able to provide cots, bedding, and temp housing in our gym and other sections of our church campus. It was one of the best demonstrations of one group of people serving another group in need that I'll ever see on this earth.

The city of Houston was very active in aiding Katrina victims. Lots of people I knew volunteered to help at the Astrodome. I know Rice had Tulane baseball practicing in the Rice facilities for a while. I knew some of the story of Tulanes plight, but this article really fills in a lot of details.

I feel like Tulane is just now really starting to recover from that decade.

Just rebounding from the fight to stay D1 was an uphill battle---Then Katrina hits with a blow would have done in many programs. Lucky Tulane has a lot of money.

Now with the renovated gym and new on campus stadium, I think they are finally in position to make a real go of it. I wish everyone on the board would read this article so they understand just exactly what kind of blow Tulane has had to recover from.

Easier for them to have us as the punching bag of their jokes. If/when we do turn it around we'll get respect.

New Orleans seems to be booming now though. I've been there around 8 times in the last 3 years, and it seems to get better every time. I think the image is better too ... yeah people still think of Bourbon Street, but the food scene has gotten heavy attention, and I'd wager people who wouldn't have visited 10 years ago, would do so now because of that.

GREAT, looooong read:

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/...ne-katrina

I still thank the schools that helped Tulane. That was a very trying time for everything Gulf Coast. I remember that team being good enough to head to a bowl game. I still think Tulane should have stayed in Shreveport and played the season there. The stability of the team would have been best for the student-athletes, coaches and fans.... However it is much easier to say that ten years later behind an IPad and several glasses of wine. If anyone has a chance to read the book written during and after Katrina with Tulane football do so.

(08-28-2015 09:11 PM)DUPERGREENIE Wrote:  I still thank the schools that helped Tulane. That was a very trying time for everything Gulf Coast. I remember that team being good enough to head to a bowl game. I still think Tulane should have stayed in Shreveport and played the season there. The stability of the team would have been best for the student-athletes, coaches and fans.... However it is much easier to say that ten years later behind an IPad and several glasses of wine. If anyone has a chance to read the book written during and after Katrina with Tulane football do so.

CUSA conference partners assisted the Green Wave and to a lesser degree, the Golden Eagle programs immediately prior to the season opener and in during the season.

Here's another article.

http://es.pn/1hdAROS

Tulane players said they expected to win the conference title in 2005.

Tulane returned 16/22 starters from back to back 5-win seasons.

In the CUSA preseason coaches' poll that year, Tulane got the 6th most votes (3rd in the West Division). They were clearly heading to a bowl game in 2005, and maybe something more.

(08-26-2015 11:49 AM)emeraldcoastwave Wrote:  

(08-25-2015 10:37 PM)oldtiger Wrote:  1,000 Katrina refugees--a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

Evacuee--a person evacuated from a place of danger to somewhere safe.


The citizens of SE LA and South MS are citizens of the USA.

Trump may have a different opinion.

(09-01-2015 07:47 AM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Trump may have a different opinion.

LOL. Sound like my grandparents. They hear "Mexicans" and wig out about the Trumpenfuhrer as if they are Mexican nationals. Lighten up, folks. I'm Hispanic and I get it.